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Todd Battistelli
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How do our disagreements go? #rhetoric, #writing, and #education.

Viewpoints that I express are my own and do not represent the views of organizations with which I'm affiliated. Reposts are not endorsements.

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I didn't get any photos of the pink glow of the aurora last night, but I did manage to capture the brown haze settling over Denver's skyline this morning.
In the foreground, the sparse vegetation of a park in late autumn just past a wooden fence. In the distance on the horizon, a brown haze settles over the skyline of Denver. Grey clouds cover most of the sky.
November 12, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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The cover of Davis D. Joyce's edited collection "An Oklahoma I Had Never Seen Before." The top half is a black and white photo of three water towers. The bottom half is the title and editor on a yellow field.
November 12, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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A help wanted ad that reads: Wanted: Someone to go back in time with me. This is not a joke. You'll get paid after we get back. Must bring your own weapons. I have only done this once before. Safety Not Guaranteed
November 11, 2025 at 11:20 PM
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This is not a place of deliberation.

No dialogue was achieved here.
A photo of the US senate floor: rows of wooden desks with chairs in an arc around a central dais. No people are visible in the photo.
November 11, 2025 at 2:52 AM
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A screenshot of the first item on a Bluesky trending list: Chuck Schumer
November 9, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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For whatever reasons, vote by mail was a little slower than previous years. But my ballot has now been counted.

#AdamsCounty #Colorado
An "I voted" sticker with stylized flowers, brush, and a rocky pass through which can be seen orange sky on the horizon fading to blue at the top of the image where the phrase "I voted" appears with a flower replacing the letter O.
October 27, 2025 at 11:51 PM
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#autumn #fall #Colorado #October
A long-distance shot showing trees in the foreground and distance with yellow leaves against a mostly cloudy sky. Leaves litter the ground.
October 27, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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When my potatoes are not in education, employment, or training.
Marge Simpson holds a potato in her hand and says, "I just think they're NEET."
October 27, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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The Batman "weapon of the enemy" meme template. An angry Batman breaks a shotgun in two with his hands, shells flying away from the splintered stock. The broken weapon is labeled "weaponization of discourse and deliberation."
October 26, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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Mr. Scott: Synthetic text?

Lt. Cmdr. Data: Yes, sir. It is a language substitute that inundated 21st century Earth. It simulates the appearance, taste and smell of text, but the meaningful content should be easily dismissed.
A screenshot from Star Trek: The Next Generation showing Mr. Scott sitting at the 10 Forward bar with Data behind the bar and a bottle of green liquor sitting between them.
October 22, 2025 at 1:12 PM
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Captain Kirk from Star Trek V asks, "What does ICE need with guided missiles?"
October 21, 2025 at 8:06 PM
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The So You Agree meme template: "So you agree? college classroom sizes should be drastically reduced?"
October 16, 2025 at 12:52 PM
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Homer Simpson makes a wish to a monkey's paw for a turkey sandwich. He says, "I don't want to turn into a turkey myself, and I don't want any other weird surprises, you got it?"
October 13, 2025 at 9:19 PM
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GenAI EdTech salesman:
Principal Skinner kneels next to Bart and Milhouse on a school bus. He says, “Now, I’ve gotten word that a child is using his imagination, and I’ve come to put a stop to it.”
October 12, 2025 at 12:44 AM
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A screenshot from The Simpsons showing a pig-shaped invitation card. It reads, "Come to Homer's BBBQ. The extra B is for BYOBB."
October 8, 2025 at 12:26 PM
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#SpookySeason
The Simpsons “Don’t Make Me Tap the Sign” meme template in two panels. The top panel shows a bus driver saying “Don’t make me tap the sign.” The bottom panel is the driver’s hand pointing to a sign on which is a fractal image reminiscent of a parrot.
October 1, 2025 at 1:06 PM
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A wonderfully rainy start to autumn.

#Colorado #pluviophile #rain
A photo of a concrete park trail slick with rain. A large tree stands to the left of the path with a large expanse of grass to the right. The sky is an overcast grey.
September 23, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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The person with whom Klein wants to live:
Rorschach in prison from the Watchmen movie. His dialogue has been altered to read, “I’m not living here with you. You’re living here with me.”
September 18, 2025 at 12:02 AM
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The Trying Kombucha meme template. A woman makes an expression of distaste at “internal candidate.” She makes an expression of consideration at “infernal candidate.”
September 17, 2025 at 12:25 AM
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The four-panel Gru's Plan meme template: 1. "Exploit the memetic virality of symbols." 2. "Ride epistemic collapose for power, profit, & the lulz." 3. Destroy consensus reality. 4. Destroy consensus reality.
September 13, 2025 at 9:32 PM
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The Surprised Pikachu meme: Pikachu looks at us with a surprised expression.
September 13, 2025 at 7:37 PM
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A screenshot from The Simpsons. A group of children stand with their mouths open in shock. One child points and grimaces while saying, "Stop! Stop! He's already slopped."
September 10, 2025 at 2:26 AM
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Jan Vriesen's "Colorado's East Coast"
Ferns and trees in the foreground occlude a sandy beach and short stretching out to the distance with more trees and haze and clouds off in the distance. Far down the beach walk iguanodon dinosaurs.
September 6, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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A screenshot from the TV series Wings. The elderly Carlton Blanchard holds up a finger while sitting across from Antonio eating soup at a lunch table. Carlton is labeled “The latest genAI hype.” Antonio is labeled “Me just trying to eat some soup.”
August 30, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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The Bynars observing the AI fever dreams of tech bros:
A scene from Star Trek: The Next Generation. Two Bynars (cybernetically augmented beings with large heads) look toward camera and speak. The image is labeled so that one starts a sentence and the other finishes it: “This is not how…” “…any of this works.”
August 19, 2025 at 12:27 PM